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Art App-reciation: Fostering Engagement and Reflection in Museums through a Social-Mobile Application

oshaer — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:32:58 +0000

MW2011

Orit Shaer, Wellesley College; Jim Olson, Davis Museum and Cultural Center; MaCherie Edwards and Consuelo Valdes, Wellesley College, USA

Abstract

This paper presents the design, development, and evaluation of ARTeMuse, a social mobile application for helping beginning viewers to engage with works of art. ARTeMuse has been tested in the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, an academic fine-arts museum on the Wellesley College campus. Our findings indicate that beginning users who tested the application were more engaged with works of arts while using ARTeMuse than they were when viewing the collection without the application. As a result, they spent significantly more time with each work. Users were eager to use ARTeMuse and expressed their satisfaction about learning new ways to think about art. Through the development and evaluation of ARTeMuse, we seek to investigate how mobile human-computer interaction paired with social networking can help museums to redefine the museum experience for beginning viewers.

Keywords: ARTeMuse, mobile human-computer interaction, social networking

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Art App-reciation: Fostering engagement and reflection in museums through a social mobile application

Dulwich OnView: A museum blog run by the community for the community

biblio — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:34:44 +0000

Bowen, J., Beazley I., Liu A. H. Y., & McDaid S. (2010). Dulwich OnView: A museum blog run by the community for the community. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2010. Proceedings.

For Kids

dina.helal — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:01:39 +0000

MW2011

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kids

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social networking

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user-generated content

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Web 2.0

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art

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artists

Abstract:

For Kids is a new section of the Whitney's web site (whitney.org) that has features for engaging a young, web-savvy audience—kids ages 8-12—with art and artists. This new section of the site will launch in early 2011. A beta version of the web pages is available for viewing at whitney.org/ForKids.

Centered upon the Museum’s collection and exhibitions, the goals of this project are to offer kids in-depth content about art and artists and build a safe, carefully moderated online community for interaction between peer groups. “For Kids” offers a unique window into Whitney artists’ work and ideas, and draws direct parallels between the artists’ and the kids’ creative processes. It also provides opportunities for tagging, commenting, voting, polling, contributed responses, and user-generated content. Children can tag works of art in the Whitney’s collection, create their own collections, and make a profile page where they can upload and share their own artwork and see the polls and quizzes that they have participated in. On the landing page, works by featured Whitney artists are literally paired with artwork uploaded by Whitney kids and works from the Whitney’s Collection sit side by side with kids’ collections. A special feature is a type of “graffiti wall”—a pattern maker based on a set of algorithms that kids can use to change the page design throughout the “For Kids” area.

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Demonstration - show your project

Demonstrations I

Site:

http://whitney.org/ForKids

Authors:

dina helal

Mixing Social Glue with Brick and Mortar: Experiments Using the Mobile Web to Connect People, Objects, and Museums

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:50 +0000

Doyle, J., & Doyle M. (2010). Mixing Social Glue with Brick and Mortar: Experiments Using the Mobile Web to Connect People, Objects, and Museums. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.

From Boring and Non-Offensive to Dancing Unicorns and Glitter Text: How a Create a Teen Web Site with Teenagers

jtrant — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:01:03 +0000

Heideman, J., & Siasoco W. (2008). From Boring and Non-Offensive to Dancing Unicorns and Glitter Text: How a Create a Teen Web Site with Teenagers. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2008. Proceedings.